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would have drunk it even to the very dregs.
It was on the twenty-first day of October that an order, issuing from General Banks, to hold ourselves in readiness, with five days rations, cooked and uncooked, and to report for orders to Brigadier-General Hamilton commanding the Second Brigade, was followed within a short time by a note from that officer to move at once without baggage, leaving a guard to come on with tents, baggage, rations, etc. You will take the lead; the other regiments will tter to me that Stone was in Leesburg, with very little fighting.
At five o'clock P. M., news of Colonel Baker's death was conveyed to General Stone; the news of the disaster soon followed.
Instructions delivered on the road from Stone met General Hamilton: these were, to repair to Conrad's Ferry, and there dispose of his force so as to protect Harrison's Island.
The rain poured piteously upon us all day of the 22d, as all day fugitives and wounded came into our lines.
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force was as follows: We had the brigades that wintered with us at Frederick, commanded by Generals Hamilton, Williams, and Abercrombie.
This force was increased by the division formerly commanded be moved from Hancock through Martinsburg to Bunker Hill (our old position under Patterson); General Hamilton passing through Charlestown stopped at Smithfield, midway between Charlestown and Bunker Hito Winchester, about ten and one half miles. General Williams was only fourteen miles away, and Hamilton about the same.
On the morning of the tenth of March, General —, at 7 o'clock, started with hiat so largely entered into the year of 1862.
We were to be no more to General Abercrombie. General Hamilton was, by order of General McClellan, transferred to another corps in his army, and my regiment sent to the brigade lately commanded by Hamilton.
As senior colonel, I thus became the commander of a brigade which, then for the first time united, remained unbroken during the remainder of the w

ferred to a more active field.
A reply to this letter, received after Jackson had driven our regiment out of the valley, declared that the exigencies of the service required thewriters to remain at Strasburg (within the valley).
Major Scott, of Colonel Murphy's Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, suppressed his perturbed spirits and spent much of his pay in presents as testimonials to officers who met his approbation.
Not content with having given superb swords to Generals Banks and Hamilton and to Major Copeland, the former's assistant adjutant-general, he now bent his energies towards a gift for the colonel of the Second Massachusetts, his then brigade commander; which, alas!
never came to fruition, for Jackson soon made us think of other things.
But we were acting without foreknowledge, and so gathered such comforts as were at hand.
Peggy, my faithful negro woman, duly installed as cook, gave more satisfaction for money paid than had any of our compromises.
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